4-4 Social Bookmarking Lesson

The lesson plan that I chose to revise to include a social bookmarking element is a lesson I teach within my cake decorating unit. Specifically this lesson is about using fondant in cake decorating. I previously had students completing a fondant picture scavenger hunt as part of the original lesson. Students were all given a list of different themes of cakes to locate photos online that used only fondant in the decorating. Some examples of things in the scavenger hunt were: a dolphin cake, tie dye theme, occupation theme, Halloween, and Disney princess.

For this revision, I required students to stick with only Pinterest and create a board called Fondant for the scavenger hunt portion. I think this revision will work well because students will have a saved file within Pinterest that they can access in the future should they have an interest in working with fondant on their own. The original lesson is created in a Google doc that is submitted to me and it is similar to a bingo chart. I do not think that students would ever save a Google doc like and reference it later. Pinterest is a frequently used app that many students use to search for creative ideas so they would be more likely to save that board and reference it again later.

The one downfall to using just Pinterest is that there will likely be lots of repetition. Most students will use the first hits that they find on a search and therefore there may not be much diversity in the final results when they share them out in groups.

Link to my lesson plan on fondant HERE.